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- From Origins of the Pioneers of Acadia - According to the Depositions made by Their Descendants at Belle-Île-en-Mer in 1767 - by Stephen A. White (located on the Acadian & French Canadian Ancestral Home website: http://stephenwhite.acadian-home.org/frames.html).
All references are based on Father H.-R. Casgrain's Collection de Documents inédits sur le Canada et l'Amérique.
This is a series of fifty-eight depositions of the heads of the Acadian families that were taken down on Belle-Île-en-Mer between February 15th and March 12th, 1767, pursuant to an order from the parliament of Brittany at Vannes. The deponents were required to provide under oath, in the presence of witnesses including other Acadians, the local parish priests, and the Abbé Jean-Louis LeLoutre, former Vicar General of the diocese of Québec and director of the Acadian families settled on Belle-Île, all the details they could regarding their own civil status and that of their immediate families, plus their direct-line genealogies back to their first ancestors who came from Europe, with indication of the places and dates as much as they can remember. The depositions were intended to take the place of the registers of the parishes in Acadia that had been lost during the persecution by the British. In practical terms, they would also furnish the French authorities a means of identifying those who, as refugees from said persecution, were entitled to the King's bounty and protection.
BOUDROT, Michel, came from France with his wife Michelle Aucoin, according to four depositions, two made by his great-grandsons, Félix Boudrot (Doc. ined., Vol. III, p. 39) and Pierre Boudrot (ibid., p. 120), one made by a great-great-grandson, also named Félix Boudrot (ibid., p. 36), and another made by Pierre LeBlanc, husband of his great-great-granddaughter Françoise Trahan (ibid., p. 41).
According to the Dictionnaire Genealogique Des Families Acadiennes English Supplement Biographical Notes for Michel Boudrot & Michelle Aucoin (Page 38):
21 Sept 1639: Michel Boudrot is mentioned as one of the first syndics [trustees] at Port-Royal.
20 July 1684: Michel Boudrot, in his capacity as "lieutenant general civil et criminel du Port-Royal” ("general representative of the King in civil and criminal matters at Port-Royal”), caused an order of the King to be recorded in Claude Petitpas's registry at Port-Royal.
20 Aug 1688: He gave up his post as "lieutenant general” to Mathieu de Goutin, pursuant to the King's order of March 31, 1687. According to this order, Boudrot was "not in a condition to carry out the functions of the post because of his great age”.
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